Walerian Krasiński
Count Walerian Skorobohaty Krasiński or Valerian Krasinski (1795–1855) was a Polish Calvinist politician, nationalist and historian.
Krasinski was a Polish aristocrat in exile after the November Uprising 1830, during the Austrian, German and Russian partition of Poland.[1] In 1844 he was proposed for a chair in Slavonic Studies at Oxford University. In 1848 he presented appeals to the Habsburg government. In Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war he wrote on the Crimean War.
Krasinski's Historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation in Poland (1838) still one of main texts on the subject available in English, was written in English. One of Krasinski's main sources is Slavonia reformata (1679) by Andreas Vengerscius.[2]
He died in Edinburgh and is buried in the old Warriston cemetery close to another Polish exile, the violinist and composer Feliks Janiewicz, one of the co-organisers of the first Edinburgh Festival.
Works
- The present government of Russia: the Emperor Nicholas, article 1841[3]
- Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war
- Historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation in Poland 1838
- Monachologia, Or, Handbook Of The Natural History Of Monks: Arranged According To The Linnean System Ignaz Edler Von Born and Walerian Krasinski.
- Treatise on Relics translated.
- Panslavism and Germanism 1848
- Lectures on the religious history of the Slavonic nations Edinburgh, 1851
- Montenegro and the Slavonians in Turkey 1853
- The Polish Question and panslavism 1855
- Poland, its history, constitution, literature etc. 1855
References
- ^ Peter F. Sugar Nationality and society in Habsburg and Ottoman Europe reprint of article from 1967
- ^ Piotr Wilczek Jesuits in Poland according to A.F. Pollard a review of A. F. Pollard, The Jesuits in Poland. [The Lothian Essay, 1892] New York. Haskell House Publishers Ltd. Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books. 1971. 98 pages. Hardcover.
- ^ 543-591. Volume 11, No. XXII, 1840 [Published January 9, 1841]
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